Re: Congratulations new MVP.

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From: Andre Da Costa (andred25_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:05:20 -0700

Was it running Unix?

"Glenn" <pilche@planet.com> wrote in message
news:%23WsOxjLrEHA.2636@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>I have stayed up to date with M$ patches (up to now).
>
> Working better isn't that broad of a statement. Any programmer knows
> phrases in a compiled program can be written to execute quicker written
> one
> way as opposed to another.
>
> That's all I was looking for. Just an updated OS program. I'm just a
> simple boy, if 73 is still considered a boy. <g> BTW my first one was a
> whole 24k so I've been around these things for a while.
>
> Glenn
>
> "Michael Solomon (MS-MVP)" <user@#notme.com> wrote in message
> news:eL%23pvr8qEHA.3428@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Making your machine work better is a rather broad statement. Better than
>> what? Do you mean make it run faster, make it crash less? Unless,
> there's
>> something specific that would apply to a wide variety of systems, that
> sort
>> of thing is on the hardware and application side as opposed to the OS
>> side
>> of things and if you decided to install SP2 you should be prepared for
>> the
>> fact you may have to update various drivers and/or applications as an
> update
>> such as this changes the operating environment.
>>
>> If you've been staying up to date with security patches for XP, have a
> good
>> firewall and antivirus application that you keep up to date, from a
> security
>> standpoint, there's no compelling reason to update to SP2 and security
> would
>> embody the bulk of what is improved in SP2.
>>
>> That said, you may have trouble getting future updates and patches for XP
>> through Windows Update if you don't update to SP2 as there may be
>> compatibility issues going forward with regard to future updates. If you
>> have your own firewall, you can turn off the Windows firewall if you
> install
>> SP2 and you would still have the benefit of the other security patches
>> SP2
>> provides.
>
>

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